lotta people are saying the price thing is an overreaction and yeah, for the console price alone, maybe.

but its the combination of that plus the overpriced games Plus having to pay an online subscription to play half of those games PLUS any potentially needed replacements (we all remember the joycon drift fiasco. its a wonder the court case went the way it did.)

on top of the fact that a solid 50% of the switch's general audience would not be able to afford it with these prices. while there is such a wide audience that uses it, a considerable majority is: children and young adults. folks who arent exactly going to have a nicely paying office job.

also the minimum wage where i live is still $7.25 and i have more important things to pay for, like food, and student loans.

so while it is probably an overreaction, can you exactly blame so many people for being pissed? they deserve a little screaming and whining time, alright?

also why are you jumping to the defense of a corporate entity. you look like a tool.

"ohhh!! economic inflation is at fault not nintendo!!! ohhhhh!!!" like i dont know this. do you think im fucking stupid.

interestingly however, corporations are part of why this economic inflation is happening !! how curious! that this violent cycle involves the very people who take advantage of it !!!

Also the pricepoint for physical copies is absurd when nintendo is pushing "key carts" where you still need to connect to their servers to own the physical game you bought. that instantly turns the software into a temporary purchase if/when they take their servers down. I understand this is already an issue but it becoming more normal is infuriating. you gonna charge an arm and a leg? at least fucking pay for the storage space needed to do so.

I love “WHO ARE WE SHOOTING AT?!”

hi y’all i just wanted to put you onto this fundraiser for the buffalo nations grasslands alliance. they’re trying to recoup some of the funds for black-footed ferret conservation on tribal grounds that the trump/musk administration has frozen, which is impacting not only the conservation efforts themselves but the livelihoods of the people working on them. the frozen grant is 1.1 million but this fundraiser has a goal of 50,000.

the fundraiser has 24 days left and has only reached 2% of its goal with 11 donations. black-footed ferrets are an endangered lazarus taxon that was thought to be extinct from 1979-1981 before being rediscovered by accident. they’re a miracle of conservation and it would be horrible to lose them for good, not to mention (again) the impact of people working with these animals losing their jobs which is outlined in the fundraiser link. indigenous-led conservation efforts are extremely important for a wide variety of reasons and as someone in the zoology area i feel obligated to share this fundraiser to contribute to those efforts.

i know that things are hard right now and there’s a lot of people and organizations all across the world that need help, so don’t feel pressured BUT if you have extra money and you can contribute to this fundraiser or share it with people who can that would be great.

super cute black-footed ferrets ^

A teenage boy is in danger of losing his father!

Due to the war in gaza Omar has lost his mother and his siblings, all he has left is his father, who has been in critical condition for months.

He needs surgery to have one of his kidneys removed, and he will need dialysis every day

For this he needs $1150, please find it in your heart to contribute even $5, Omar is terrified to be alone in the world.

Vetted here

Donate here through paypal, please leave a note specifying it's for omar, as the account owner is helping multiple gazans with donations

Please reblog

He still needs $1080!

There is still $1070, please do whatever you can this is very urgent

I guess the moral of the story is that the $15 pc indie game reigns supreme at the end of the day

To everyone considering paying 5 billion dollars per year to play gamecube games on switch

Take my hand. I can show you a better way

it's always funny to me when transmascs talk about how nice it is to transition and not feel pressured to look attractive anymore. like I'm glad being ugly gives you gender euphoria or whatever but please tell me you understand that that is an example of you benefitting from male privilege. misogyny forces women, especially trans women, to conform to largely white supremacist beauty standards, and in fact historically (and still in many places) trans women's ability to medically transition at all is determined by whether a psychiatrist thinks we would be attractive as women

it really is insane how little you hear about "america has the world's highest prison population by such a significant margin that it would be seen as excessively over-the-top if it was used in fiction"

before you say "4% isn't that big of a difference between the US and China"

for anyone bad at math 1.4 billion divided by 340 million is about 4. we have a fourth the population of china but a higher prison population and a higher incarceration rate by far. this is just widely publicly available information that you're supposed to just accept. it's not supposed to make you go insane.

Oh boy, do I have a website for you.

https://mkorostoff.github.io/incarceration-in-real-numbers/

This shows the prison population in a way to contextualize the actual enormity of it.

Breathtaking

the fact that the switch 2 tech demo tutorial 'game' costs money and is digital only is insane. remember when every wii came with wii sports for free? do you remember that? i am going to hunt down the nintendo execs for sport

luigi mangione facing the death penalty just seems like a bad decision for america. so there's this guy that everyone loves and considers a hero, and we arrested him after very obviously planting fake evidence. and now we're going to subject him to an unfair trial and kill him at the end. there's no way anyone will be mad about that right

Wow! What a great Direct! Some really interesting looking games and really cool upgrades to older games!

I can't wait to get a Switch 2! Wait what's that the announced the price?

Never mind, I think in fact can wait to get a Switch 2!

If nintendo doesn’t want me to pirate their games they should make mayro kart 4 dallars

My cat Shams miraculously survived the bombing with me.💔🇵🇸 She lost one eye and the other cannot see well, 😢And I cannot afford to treat and feed her.😢😢 I also have my family.❤️And I don’t have the money to buy food for them either. Help me donate to save my family and our cat Shams from starvation.🙏🙏🙏🇵🇸❤️

it's called the Switch 2 because you Switch 2 a cheaper hobby